randym77 posted at 7:59 PM Fri, 9 February 2024 - #4481415

LOL. You might have a point there. But jeez, at one point Chris said Dawn 2 coming out maybe next month. It's been years since then.

Clothes aren't actually the biggest issue for me. It's morphs and textures. LF and LH are lacking in diversity, and IMO, it's the morphs and textures that are the issue. If you want to depict a middle aged Black man, say, or an elderly Asian woman, you're kind out of luck.

One particular example: nearly all the LF textures have eyebrows that are really thick, and square on the inner ends. That is fashionable now; all the models and actresses have brows like that these days.

But it hasn't been popular in the past, and doesn't look natural. So if you want to render a 50s glamor girl, or a historical heroine...the textures look anachronistic.

Shhhh......

Don't say that LF & LH are All Caucasians, all the time.  It sets people off that can't actually do math.  I have run the numbers - Poser (and DS) figures are over 90% Caucasian - it has always been this way.  As I said earlier, Poser has devolved from Make anything you can conceive of to Make a generic pin up image with an instantly forgettable white girl. 

The whole reason I use every figure I have collected since Dec 2004 is that is literally the only way to get a wide variety of ages, shapes, colors, and such.

There are a number of texture conversion products have have been around, and then abandoned - the last was Texture Transfer.

It works really, really well and a number of us were begging Blacksmith3d to take our money for new plug-ins, but it looks like they have gone to that great software repository in the sky.